the midwest deal floods. weary resident are piling up sand bag trying to protect their homings. the flooding is caused in part by what was welcome rainfall. the floods have drenched the farmer s field and destroyed homes and slowed down barge traffic in the area. flooding is also a concern in the south. a risk of severe weather could bring damaging wind and hail and tornados. they are standing by with more on we are watching the cells in the gulf coast and see severe storms erupt and including tornadings, we don t have warningings and you can see it developing in oklahoma and now in the river valley and this is a wide area of potential of
failure of the house to get a farming bill through in the waning days of the 2012 congressional session. that would allow us to provide cash assistance to the producers. as it is right now we re limited to what we can do. we re trying to get the rest of the federal farmly to focus on these farmers an ranchers. the right now the corps of engineers is focused on the mississippi river and able to get crops. jenna: i heard some of the barges are own half full is that right? because the weight, they re worried about running aground? that s correct. the river is basically down to a very minimum in terms of barge traffic and as a result, the corps is working to clear up a channel for the barges that requires work to clear out rocks that have been there forever obviously. they re doing it on expedited basis. this interrupts the flow of traffic which is infortunate. fortunately we still have traffic on the mississippi. there were concerns we might not even have it at this
years. now, democrats have traditionally held the advantage among women voters and they hope that is the case this year. but south carolina governor haley says not so far, women are not necessarily a mono lithic voting block. guest: they do not vote like that. the more the democrats try and label women on one issue or one party, they are making a mistake. women are smarter than that. they will prove it for the next election. reporter: she is a prominent g.o.p. women who will be on the podium here at the convention. shepard: john roberts, live in tampa. hope to see you wednesday or thursday or some time when this think blows away. hopefully it will not cause any damage at all. they have had a terrible drought. the mississippi river in places had to be closed over the past week because of the fact that the water is so low they could not ensure that the barge traffic could get through and
now the devastating drought affecting much of the country. this is amazing. it is very early for that intense heat and drought forcing them to do so. and it is the fattest is it is affecting barge traffic. it is elizabeth live. hi, harris. it is an unusually warm winter coupled by the fact. it is here by the mississippi river. that means very slow congested barge traffic and some river sections are closed and now open. it is tight for many barges and hundred to youboats were
harvest is the earliest on record and it is on track to be at least 15% smaller than last year. that drought also choking barge traffic along the mississippi river due to lower water levels that can affect all of us. elizabeth in atlanta with the latest. reporter: this all started in the winter when we saw little rainfall and snowfall in the northern states. now we are seeing extreme drought conditions translated to a shrinking mississippi river. what does that mean? bottleneck traffic, closed sections of the river and much less cargo transported to our marketplace. last week nearly 100 toe boats were backed up along an 11 mile stretch stretch near greensville, mississippi traffic is now moving intermittently. the mississippi river is the primary highway for barge traffic it takes up and down the united states from grain, corn, soybeans and scrap metal